Adoption Home Study Services

When you need adoption home study services in Florida, you can count on Connecting Hearts to help. As a licensed and well experienced agency, we have helped hundreds of families with the adoption process. When you are thinking about adopting a child you must begin with a home study. This is where you will gather and submit forms including employment verification, criminal background checks, financial statements, reference letters and more. The list can be overwhelming but it’s necessary to provide all the requested information for the process to go well. Some of the items/documents you will need include:

Application: The application needs to be collected first and includes several forms offering consent and agreements that you will have to submit along personal information.

Self Study: There will be sections that you fill out together as parents and parts that are filled out as individuals.

Reference Letters: These are important as they need to be gathered from four non-family members and one family member. Five letters in total and if you currently or previously worked with children, one of the letters must be submitted from your employer at that job.

Criminal Background Checks: These must be completed by anyone over the age of 12 who lives in the home.

Our goal with adoption home study services is to help simplify the entire process, eliminating some of the stress and frustration as you try to get organized. By helping you to prepare for the study, we can speed up the process as most studies are completed in less than 30 days. This helps make things a lot easier on our clients which is greatly appreciated given the amount of work they have to take on. Give us a call if you are ready to get started or if you have any questions.

The best advice we can offer when you are looking for adoption home study services is to just make sure you are patient and manage your time well. It’s not that there’s a lot of paperwork, it’s not even the fact that there is a lot of work to be done. The thing that always creates headaches for aspiring parents is when they have to wait on other people to do the paperwork. Whether it’s the city, state, your accountant, doctor, attorney or someone else, waiting for them to get their stuff done can test your patience. Make sure you get that part out of the way as early as possible so that you do not have to worry about it the closer you get to the study.